The Malcolm X Grassroots Movement along with Community Aid and Development Corp. present the Black August Commemoration Kickoff and Chokwe Lumumba Birthday Celebration on Saturday, August 2, 2014 from 6 to 10pm at the Davis Bozeman law office, 4153 Flat Shoals Pkwy, Decatur, GA 30034. Black August has a thirty-five year history of commemorating fallen comrades and embracing the principles of unity, self-sacrifice, political education, physical training and resistance. This year, we focus on the importance of health and wellness in our struggle and celebrate the birthday of our chairman Chokwe Lumumba. Chokwe Lumumba was a revolutionary activist, attorney, mayor of Jackson MS, and co-founder of NAPO and MXGM. Lumumba passed this year, February 25, 2014.

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Dr. Mutulu Shakur, a member of the New African People’s Organization and the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement is one of the longest held political prisoners of war in USA federal detention at this time. He has been locked down and kept from his people for over 30 years since his capture on February 11, 1986. He was charged and convicted of freeing our Sister Assata Shakur from prison and master minding a 1981 expropriation of a Brinks armored truck.

Dr. Shakur was set for release on February 10, 2016 but his release never occurred. Just before this date he was informed that he would only be scheduled to get a hearing for parole on April 4, 2016.

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BAMN (By Any Means Necessary) Grassroots News Service is the multi-platform news media for the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement and the New Afrikan People’s Organization. This service will provide news, information, political perspective, and cultural and social commentary about issues and events impacting the freedom struggle of New Afrikans (Black People) colonized inside the United States Empire as well as Africans in the Diaspora and other oppressed people’s around the world.